Dave Hatter on Fox19 (WXIX) RE Insane Demand and Lack of Supply for IT Jobs

I was interviewed by Shelia Gray on March 21st, 2013 for the Fox 19 Morning News. We discussed incredible demand for IT people and the relative lack of supply, especially programmers.

You can watch this interview and many others on my YouTube channel: http://youtu.be/m7iPBc7Ul9E.

I’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions for other topics!

If you’d like to have me speak to your group or do an interview on any business/technology topic, you can reach me at Libertas Technologies.

I’m interviewed in this article in The Ladders “Is Your Job Exportable?”

http://www.theladders.com/career-advice/is-your-job-exportable

Dave Hatter on Fox 19 (WXIX) RE Online Reputation Management for Job Seekers

I was interviewed by Shelia Gray on July 26, 2012 for the Fox 19 Morning News. We discussed the Online Reputation Management for Job Seekers.

You can watch this interview and many others on my YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUo1xWbXfi4.

The tips we discussed include:

1. Be Careful What You Share Online
• Assume you have no privacy regardless of “privacy” settings
• Assume it will last forever
• Only 5.7% of recruiters are not active on social media
• 12.5 percent of employees are hired directly through social media
• “Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.” – Benjamin Franklin
2. Start Managing Your Online Reputation Now, search for yourself
• Google drives about 80% of search traffic
• Google yourself (Bing and Yahoo too)!
• Use Google Alerts to proactively track information about you.
• Hide personalized search results to ensure what others see
• Own As Many “Slots” As Possible on Google’s Page
3. Look Past the First Page of Search Results
• Most recruiters and employers will go beyond the page of results. Check at least 4
4. Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile
• You control the messaging!
• Focus on positive information and accomplishments
• Get recommendations
• Update it regularly
• LinkedIn is used by 40% of recruiters and is #1 social media site for hiring
5. Create a Personal Website, Blog or Web Page
• Use this to share positive information / portfolio
• Will help with search
• Link to LinkedIn
6. Tackle Negative Stuff Head On
• It’s likely to have been seen by employers and recruiters
• Ensure that it’s really about you
• Prepare an explanation or be able to refute it

We looked at the MyCareerWeb site to explore how it can help you manage your reputation, I encourage you to check it out and give it a try.

Here are some links to articles that explore this subject in more detail:

http://www.cio.com/article/711246/10_Online_Reputation_Management_Tips_for_Job_Seekers

http://www.toprankmarketing.com/newsroom/online-reputation-management-job-seekers/

http://www.careermakeovercoach.com/is-your-online-reputation-ruining-your-job-search/

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-02-06/news/31028849_1_social-network-google-facebook-profile

I’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions for other topics!

If you’d like to have me speak to your group or do an interview on any business/technology topic, you can reach me at Libertas Technologies.

Why We Should Be Teaching More Computer Science Classes

http://www.educationnation.com/index.cfm?objectid=AD1918D6-2CC8-11E1-B607000C296BA163

According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, by 2018 more than 800k computing jobs will be created, making it one of the fastest growing fields, but universities will only graduate enough CS degree candidates to fill 53% of expected 1.8M CS jobs!

For more information and to help solve this problem and fill these high paying jobs, visit the Computer Science Education Week (CSEd) web site and get involved!

Dear Santa: A Recruiting Wish List for Small Business

I’m quoted in this Monster.com article talking about the need for more skilled labor in the technology arena, especially programmers.

From the article:
Candidates with the right job skills: There’s no shortage of available labor these days. However, there appears to be a mismatch between what is available and what is needed. Dina Moy founder of Inkba.com, Marianne Carlson, president and lead designer of Emcie Media and Dave Hatter, owner of Libertas Technologies, LLC are all asking Santa for the same kind of skilled labor — skilled IT candidates, specifically experienced programmers. Let’s hope there is enough to go around.

“We are a knowledge-based business. We do custom software development, so skilled employees (programmers with good communication skills) are imperative to the delivery of our service,” states Hatter.

You can read the entire article at Monster.com.

My Fox19 (WXIX) Interview RE: Social media job hunting and ORM

I was interviewed by Rob Williams on November 15th, 2011 for the Fox 19 Morning Show, we discussed how recruiters are increasingly using social media to find and screen candidates and what you need to know about Online Reputation Management (ORM). If you’re wondering what happened to the beard, I had a razor accident the morning of the show.

You can watch this interview on the Fox19 web site or this one and many others on my YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUyOYjo3u04

You can find the links to the web sites we discussed in the interview here.

I’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions for other topics!

If you’d like to interview me or have me speak to your group about any business/technology topic, contact me at Libertas Technologies.

My interview with Dan Carroll on 700 WLW 10/12/2011

Here’s a link to my radio interview on 700 WLW with Dan Carroll. The inteview was on 10/12/2011 in the 5:00pm hour, we discussed a number of things including Occupy Cincinnati, recruiters using social media to research candidates, Facebook Timeline and Google Alerts. As always, Dan does a great job as host!

Give it a listen and share it if interested, the interview starts around 46 seconds.

http://www.700wlw.com/cc-common/podcast/single_page.html?more_page=1&podcast=sloanieTracy&selected_podcast=111012_3_DAN_1318457018_17867.mp3

If you’d like to inteview me or have me speak to your group about any business/technology topic, contact me at Libertas Technologies.

My interview with Dan Carroll on 700 WLW 10/07/2011

Here’s a link to my radio interview on 700 WLW with Dan Carroll. The inteview was on 10/07/2011 in the 9:00pm hour, we discussed a number of things including Steve Jobs, jobs, regulations and Occupy Cincinnati. As always, Dan does a great job as host!

Give it a listen and share it if interested, the interview starts around 1:20.

http://www.700wlw.com/player/?station=WLW-AM&program_name=podcast&program_id=amazon.xml&mid=21478082

If you’d like to inteview me or have me speak to your group about any business/technology topic, contact me at Libertas Technologies.

Entrepreneur: Recruit Talent with Social Media

http://www.entrepreneur.com/humanresources/hiring/article202466.html

A brave new world – Australian couple served with legal documents via Facebook

A brave new world is upon us! Social Media increasingly permeates mainstream society with interesting new potential and consequences, as demonstrated in this story:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3793491/Australian-couple-served-with-legal-documents-via-Facebook.html

I freely admit that I am an avid user of  social media and somewhat of an evangelist for LinkedIn (others have used words like fanatic, addict, freak, but, etc.) and can confirm that Facebook, Plaxo and other social media sites are incredibly valuable platforms for communication and collaboration with friends, family and colleagues. They allow you to establish and cultivate connections that you might never make in the real world, find jobs, find candidates, promote events, and share information with little to no cost other than your time. It’s really quite amazing how powerful these tools are for anyone one in business.  Never before have you been able to reach so many people at so little cost! 

As ever large numbers of professionals turn to these tools for business and personal networking (LinkedIn has over 30,000,000 users), it is becoming a rather significant competitive disadvantage to be devoid of a social media presence, and with just a bit of time and effort, you can start to build a very powerful and pervasive personal brand (more on this in a future blog) that will help you and your organization!

But as your build your personal brand, you need to be continually aware of what you are saying out there in cyberspace  as well as what others are saying about you. It’s very easy to share information on these sites and in some cases, people either flippantly post information or vent with no idea that their comments, photos, videos, etc, may turn up elsewhere, sometime in very inconvenient places.

Postings that you make on LinkedIn and Facebook may not be as private as you think, even if you post in a private group. What would stop someone from copying your posting into an e-mail and sending it to other people who are not members of the group? For that matter, what would stop someone from forwarding it to the press?

In general, I would strongly recommend that you do not post anything online that you would not want to show up in the newspaper or on the nightly news!

Additionally recruiters are increasingly using these tools to research job candidates, so your words can come back to haunt you. In some cases, many years later because information that you post in these sites may remain on the site and possibly in Google indefinitely if not forever! (See this article for more or recruiters using LinkedIn)

There are many well documented case of people who have been fired for inappropriate postings on the Internet, so you really do need to take this threat seriously. Check it out for yourself, either follow the link above, or Google “people fired social media”. Not to mention the countless but undocumented number of people who were not hired because of something they said/did online.

Then there’s this new angle of people who you would rather not know where you are and what you are doing (ex-spouses, ex-lovers, ex-friends, collection agencies, etc) being able to find you and monitor you online.  As a small business owner and elected official, I want to be found and I love the status update tools LinkedIn and Facebook provide, it’s a great mechanism to inform clients (and potential clients), constituents and friends what I’m up to. I’m sure the folks Australia have  a different opinion on this now.

That said, I must admit that serving legal documents through Facebook is a novel yet innovative approach to the age old problem of serving those who don’t want to be served. All you legal folks out there are taking note, aren’t you?

I encourage you to read this article and then ponder the consequences of your online actions.  If you are posting tasteless, classless, indecent or offensive information using these tools, I urge you to stop immediately and try to remove any such information that you can.  Also, be aware that the more information you post about yourself, the easier it is to be found and studied and there is no telling when it could come back to haunt you in the future.

At the end of the day, I believe the pros of social media far outweigh the cons, but you need to understand the implications and weight the consequences carefully.